**** DONE: 1/48 Fairy Swordfish of 816th Squadron

[Airframes]

Looking very nice mate!

 

[javlin]

With Terry there very nice start.Cheers

 

[Crimea_River]

Beautiful work David!

 

[Wayne Little]

Keep your head down David.....nice work mate!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

With Andy mate, looking good.

 

[bemay]

good work

 

[Wurger]

With all here.

 

[kgambit]

Nicely done David!

 

[vikingBerserker]

Thanks fellas!

 

[rochie]

great job

 

[magnu]

Looking very good
RAF Perranporth is about 12 miles up the coast from where I live and is home to a flying school and a gliding club it also has some of the best preserved E pens I have seen. When flying from Bodmin we landed there twice on runway 09 which is truly spectacular as the approach is straight in from the sea towards 300' high cliffs.

 

[DBII]

Any new pictures?

DBII

 

[vikingBerserker]

I tried Tamiya Acrylics for the first time with this build, and I have to say the white was a nightmare. I tined the white with a little bit of Gray to give it a slight off-white color so the white in the stripes would stick out. The Dark Gray went on smoothly with no issues at all. I'm really at a loss as to why I had such an issue with the white but it took me 3 days to get one coat on. It was like it was too thin and thick at the same time.

First coat of the white is on the fuselage as well as the bottom of the wings, Dark Grey was painted on the dark the tops of the wings. One more coat of white on the fuselage then the dark grey top.

 

[Crimea_River]

Welcome to acrylics VB. Although I have not tried Tamiya acrylics, I've had simialr issues with Pollyscale. Mind you, white is pretty tough to do.

Looks good all the same.

 

[Airframes]

Looking good VB.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Nice bit of spraying Dave. I have problems with white enamels, it take a number of coats for me to get a good finish.

 

[Wayne Little]

I use Tamiya too...white is probably the one colour that can be a real pain....I usually thin it well and put it on thin and build up the coats....progress looks good though!

 

[rochie]

looks good VB

 

[javlin]

Looks good VB but my Badger just does not like acrylics at all.I just did some flat white in enamels and was much easier than usual

 

[vikingBerserker]

THanks fellas, and thanks Jav. I might have to try that on my next build. I've always heard of the pros and cons of using enamals - I might as well give it a try.